Generating Novelty Through Interdependent Routines: A Process Model of Routine Work

The authors are indebted to the people at AutoCo for giving so generously of their time and taking the authors along in their change efforts. They thank participants of the Strategy as Practice precolloquium workshop, the 2013 European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium subtheme 39, the 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, and the 2013 International Symposium on Process Organization Studies for their helpful comments on previous versions of this paper. They are grateful to Samer Faraj, Raghu Garud, Gerda Gemser, Jochem Hummel, Brian Pentland, Philipp Tuertscher, and participants of the KINcubator at VU University Amsterdam and the Reading Group at Radboud University Nijmegen for valuable feedback that helped them develop this paper. The authors extend special thanks to the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback and to Martha Feldman for her exceptional guidance as editor, both of which helped to shape this paper during the review process. Finally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Agentschap NL [Grant IOP-IPCR 0909].